Bartolozzi v. Mallegni’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably United Air Lines, Inc. v. Wiener (1964), 60 Cal. 2d 690 - Cross v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (1964)
10 federal appellate · 82 state decisions — followed in 13 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Estate of Watts · Redfield v. Oakland Consolidated Street Railway Co. · Earley v. Pacific Electric Railway Co. · Robinson v. Western States Gas & Electric Co. · Faxon v. All Persons
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““How perfectly absurd it would appear to be to hold that where the whole amount of a recovery is given solely on account of the pecuniary injury to the surviving wife, one-half thereof must go to a surviving father or mother or brother or sister of decedent who has suffered no pecuniary injury whatever. Yet such would be the effect of appellant’s construction of the section.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.